Keyword results: North Fitzroy
The Brutals EP launch
What:
The Brutals EP launch
Where:
The Empress, 714 Nicholson St, North Fitzroy
When:
Sat Feb 13, doors 8pm
How much:
TBC! Possibly $6
Description:
The Brutals don't look all that brutal to us. They're nice-looking chaps, their new EP is called The Honeymoon Period, and they're releasing it on Valentines Day of all days. There's definitely some mushy shiny stuff behind those floppy-haired faces, we're sure of it. Catch them this Saturday for a pre V-day summer serenade, along with performances from rock locals Baby Brain and The Ocean Party.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: Rock action
Beaches, Heavy Mental and Snawklor!
What:
Beaches, Heavy Mental and Snawklor!
Where:
The Empress, 714 Nicholson St, Fitzroy North
When:
Sat Nov 14, doors 8pm
How much:
$12
Description:
This is what you should do before you break into the pool on Saturday! Listen to Nicci Reid, the queen of gig blurbists, when she tells you Beaches will be "bringing back the wavey no-fi goodtime rhythms of surf and backyards you love so well." Plus Heavy Mental debuting new lycra outfits and punching you right in the vagina with some head banging air guitar glamour punk.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: art rock
Blackhearts & Sparrows Wine Purveyors
Residents of Melbourne's whitest suburb have long been spoiled for choice as far as organic grocers, interesting tote bags and artisan bakeries go, but what about a nice bottle of red to go with all that white? The best option until recently was a $10 Jacobs Creek Shiraz with plenty of random medals on the label from Piedemontes.
Ol School Fish & Chips
You might have ridden past it a few hundred times and wondered,"What's so ol school about this place?" Well, I'll tell you. Tastes like real potato, that's what. They make their own chips, that's why. Cut them straight from the potato. They have sold a tonne of these chips since they opened 2.
Retail Fireworks final show (for a while)
What:
Retail Fireworks final show (for a while)
Where:
The Empress, 714 Nicholson St, North Fitzroy
When:
TONIGHT! Thurs Aug 13, doors 8pm
How much:
$7
Description:
At Retails Fireworks' last gig I woke up with the following note in my phone: "Never bring girlfriend to see gig, loud noises. I've fallen in love with a band." Dramatic, sure. Nonsensical, yes, but wholly accurate. Retail shows are a fluid jam, mingling guitars and beats, and the occasional held vocal drone.
Event: Bands
Event: Supper
‘Lost Weirdness' at Tape Delay
Melbourne loves cinema. Be it multiplex blockbusters in gleaming shopping centres, or the sweetly poignant odes to fandom that find a home in our city's cinematic utopia, we love it all.
But when it comes to the nether regions of the cinematic world, it's best to turn to an expert: Leon O'Ragen.
John Citizen
John Bailey has himself a nice little setup. Not only is he a successful writer, he now spends the time that he would normally be locked in his house, banging his head against the desk and praying for inspiration, in a much nicer way. With the door open to Brunswick Street and goods to sell, the minor interruptions of customers are a small price to pay when you get to be shopgirl (boy), writer, and kitty cat owner all in the same workday.
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